Category: GLOBE AWARD ARFF Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: Together

Director’s Name: Yuan Lin

Writer’s Name: Yuan Lin

Producer: Yuan Lin

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 11 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

WANG Shi is “a child from star” who was diagnosed as autism at 4 years old. Luckily, he has not only been taken care of by his family, but also received education from a special education center as well as financial aid from the government. Everything is getting better and better every day. However, after 16 years old, he will face the challenge to live independently.

Original Film Title: 90分钟纪录片《屋脊的慧眼》

Director’s Name: Zhe Tian

Writer’s Name: Wenhua Cui

Producer: Guangdong Education Publishing House

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Film Description:

EYES OF WISDOM IN TIBET tells two stories about “wisdom eyes” on the roof of the world in a double line narrative way. One story is about the arduous process of the world’s leading edge submillimeter telescope coming a long way from the Alps and settling on Yangbajing Observatory in Tibet. Another is about the profound influence and application of the unique Tibetan traditional astronomical calendar in the folk. With this strong contrast, the documentary shows the blend of modern and ancient, the harmonious coexistence of front-line science and traditional national civilization.
Focusing on the content of science and technology and the extension of its social and cultural relationship, the documentary have made 11-year-long video records of the stories of people Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and major events in Chinese astronomy by using the methods of field investigation and ethnography, which perfectly interprets the application and value of the perspective of physical anthropology and science anthropology in documentaries.

Original Film Title: ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire

Director’s Name: Trip Jennings

Writer’s Name: Ralph Owen Bloemers, Trip Jennings

Producer: Ralph Owen Bloemers

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing. This film brings cutting edge science and indigenous knowledge into focus. It forces us, from city dwellers to seasoned fire professionals to rural citizens , to question what we believe and offers a science based way forward to live and thrive with fire.

Original Film Title: SLOVENIAN WATER CYCLE – The Badaševica river and Škocjanski zatok nature Reserve

Director’s Name: Matjaz Mihelčič

Writer’s Name: Matjaz Mihelčič

Producer: Matjaz Mihelčič

Country of Origin: Slovenia

Country of Filming: Slovenia

Language: Slovenian

Runtime: 25 hours

Film Description:

Water is an essential part of man and nature, without which there is no life.
In Europe, waters create »jewels« of natural wonders such as rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caves, gorges etc.
In this documentary TV series, we will get as close as possible to the particular »jewels« of slowenian waters and present them in time and space.
We will discover what flora and fauna surronds the particular water »jewels« and specially, how the particular water »jewels« affect the life of the inhabitants and visitors.

Ecology will be the »fill rouge« of the Water Cycle, with the intent to show how we nowadays care for, and what more could be done to preserve the »jewels« in their unspoiled, natural form. Without negative impacts of industry, progress and pollution.

Slovenian waters are also a reflexion of the european humanist spirit, which lived here and created throughout the centuries. The rivers, caves, gorges, springs have always been a inexhaustible source of inspiration for many a great european artist (for example Prešeren, Beethoven).